Anyway, the point is, that to make a sad song properly sad, you need a properly sad chord progression, so we’ve sought out one or two of the saddest chords known to mankind. These – when combined with ...

To make a sad song properly sad, you need a properly sad chord progression, so we’ve sought out one or two of the saddest chords known to mankind. These - when combined with the saddest of all keys ...

Taking a theoretically identical chord and juggling its notes can give a subtle or not so subtle change in timbre.

Can hyper-romanticism still strike a chord in a post-modernist world? Sure, especially if that chord is from Jules Massenet’s opera Werther. In 1892, the French composer transformed a literar… ...